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Globe editorial: Canada and the U.S. may be friends again – but even friends don’t always give you what you want
Feb 23, 2021 1 min, 16 secs
For four years, Ottawa had to manage a capricious American leader who abruptly imposed tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum, and who spread misinformation about Canada-U.S.

Just to make it crystal clear that the friendship between the two countries sharing the world’s longest undefended border was meaningless to him, Donald Trump also hurled personal insults at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, calling him “weak,” “dishonest” and “two-faced.”.

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Climate, pandemic and economy on the agenda as Biden and Trudeau meet Tuesday in effort to renew ties.

During the Trump years, Ottawa spent much of its time working around the White House as it defended Canada’s status as a reliable American trading partner; in the years to come, the lines of communication will be more open between two like-minded administrations.

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Biden made that clear on his first day in office, when he cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline project – rewarding his domestic political base by kicking Canada.

government procurement – a weakly enforced Trump policy that the new President has doubled down on, and which could harm Canadian manufacturers.

need to be on the same page on China – which may involve Canada moving closer to the American position.

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No Canadian government can ever expect its American counterpart to sacrifice more than minor domestic interests for the sake of our own priorities

But the Trudeau government can, at the very least, look forward to an end to the chaos and sabotage of the late, unlamented Trump years

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